After many years as an informal educator in STEM and environmental education (including on a WWII submarine), my focus shifted to how to capture and share evidence of the transformational learning experiences I witnessed everyday.

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As the Principal of Aspect Research + Evaluation, I help education and community-focused organizations identify and answer the important questions for their work. For more than 10 years, our projects have focused on designing and studying equitable learning environments in STEM, place-based, and sustainability education. Issues of social justice, racial and gender equity, and amplifying marginalized voices are at the center of our work. We approach projects as partnerships and prioritize participatory co-design approaches.

I spent eight years as a researcher with the Institute for Science and Math Education at University of Washington. There I worked across several research-practice partnerships as a graduate researcher and a postdoctoral scholar. In 2017, I spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo, where I managed multiple research projects in sustainability and science education. In 2019, I joined the leadership team of the newly formed Seattle Evaluation Association and recently completed my term as President.